Dr. Frank's What's-it

That's Our Gore

If you ignore him, he'll go away...

...but where's the fun in that?

I'd say Ron Rosenbaum grants far too much importance to Gore Vidal's latest round of nut-job conspiracy theorizing, but there's a lot of amusing and satisfying rhetoric in the over-reaction. By the end, Rosenbaum starts to sound a bit batty himself, but that's what often happens when you enter into a dialog with a madman.

The amazing thing about Vidal in crackpot mode is how seriously this stuff is taken in England. Not just by college kids and Socialist Workers Party ninnies, but by otherwise ordinary grown-ups. It's almost like they want to believe it...